Shoemaker&#39;s knife.



PATENTED NOV. 19, 1907.

I No. 371,416.

I F. KLEEMANN. SHOEMAKERS KNIFE.

APPLICATION FILED PERM, 1907.

WITNESSES 0% 4. Z

THE-NORRIS PETERS co., WASHINGTON. u. c.

FELIX KLEEMANN, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

SHOEMAKERS KNIFE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 19,1907.

Application filed February 6.1907. Serial No. 359.482.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FELIX KLEEMANN, a subject of. the King of GreatBritain, and residing at London, E. (l, in the county of Middlesex,England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ShoemakersKnives, of which the following is a specification, such aswill enablethose skilled in the ,art' to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to knives of the class used by shoe and bootmakers, and the object thereof is to provide an improved device of thisclass the blade of which is longitudinally adjustable in the handle sothat the length of said blade may be increased I or decreased at will afurther object being to provide a knife of the class described, the

handle of which is com osed of two parts and the. shank of the bla e ofwhich is adapted to be secured between the separate parts of the handlein such manner as to be longi tudinally adjustable in said handle.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate partsof my improvement are desig- .nated bysuitable reference characters ineach of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a side view of my improvedshoe makers knife complete; Fig. 2 a cross section on the line 22 ofFig. 1 Fig. 3 an inside view of one part of the handle; Fig. 4 asideviewof the blade removed from the handle; and, Fig. 5 a back view ofthe blade. v In the practice of my invention, I provide a knife handle ahaving a blade I), and the handle a is composed of two similar parts asaid parts being provided in their adjacent faces with lon itudinalrecesses a forming a longitudinal chamber a" adapted to receive theshank of the blade b. In the longitudinal recess in one part a of thehandle are formed recesses or apertures a and the end of the shankof theblade I) is provided with a laterally curved hook member 1) adapted toenter one of said recesses. The separate parts of the handle a areconnected, opposite the end from which the blade projects, by a pivot orsimilar device 0 on which said parts of the handle are free to turn, andthe opposite end. of the handle is provided with a thread (1 on which,in practice, is placed a screw-threaded band 6.

In connecting the blade with the handle, the band e is detached, theseparate parts of the handle are turned on the pivot c and the shank ofthe blade is placed in the chamber a formed by the longitudinal recessesa in the separate parts of the handle and the hook member If at the endof the shank is inserted into one of the holes or apertures a afterwhich the separate parts of the handle are swung into position and theband 0' is screwed onto the end thereof as shown in Fig. 1 and thissecurely holds the blade in the handle.

It will be understood that the length of the projecting portion of theblade may be adjusted to any desired extent by simply adjusting theblade in the handle, in which operation the band a must be taken off andthe separate parts of the blade I) be adjusted as may be desired, afterwhich the separate parts of the handle are again connected as shown inFig. 1.

My invention is not limited to the particular form of handle hereinshown and described, and various changes therein and modificationsthereof may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention orsacrificing its advantages.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A knife, the handle of which is composed of two similar parts providedwith a longitudinal chamber, one part of the handle being provided witha plurality of longitudinally arranged holes, a blade the shank of whichis adapted to fit in said chamber the end of which is provided with ahook member adapt-ed to lit in said holes whereby the blade may beadjusted longitudinally of the handle, and means for securing theseparate- FELIX K I IEICMANN l/Vitnesses II. D. JAMEsoN, It. F.WVlLLIAMS.

